Posted on 09/09/2014 4:30:46 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Mary Burke twice debated whether having a job was the thing for her
Democratic candidate for Wisconsin governor Mary Burke took a two-year break from her career for a “snowboarding sabbatical” and a decade later expressed doubts that she ever wanted to have a full-time job again.
Burke’s career has come under scrutiny after it was revealed that her résumé includes a two-year gap between positions at Trek Bicycle Corporation, which was founded by her father.
After working in Europe for Trek overseeing operations in multiple countries, Burke decided she “needed some time off,” according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal. Explanations of what Burke was actually doing from July 1993 to September 1995 vary, largely because Burke’s explanations have varied.
Burke at one point said that, feeling burnt out from her job, she and a group of friends went off to a popular Argentinian mountain resort to snowboard for three months. At another point she said that her time spent in Argentina was because she was “going out with this guy.”
Her actual “snowboarding sabbatical” lasted two months in Argentina, though it remains unclear who she was with.
She then headed to the Breckenridge Ski Resort in Colorado, where she says she spent her time “traveling and relaxing” and also teaching snowboarding part time for a couple of months.
She even considered going back to school at the University of Colorado in Boulder but ultimately decided not to, and went back to Trek, putting an end to the two year period of snowboarding, traveling, and relaxing.
Burke has put in the work to try to nail down for voters what she actually did during this gap, offering old receipts and passports to show that she is not hiding anything.
However, email records show that this was not the only time Burke considered shedding work responsibilities from her life altogether.
Burke was considered in 2004 after her second stint with Trek to be part of Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle’s cabinet, but she expressed doubt that she would want a full-time job.
“I do not know at this point whether I will want to re-enter the full-time work force,” wrote Burke in a December 2004 email. “ I would appreciate being kept in mind but I don’t want anyone wasting their time.”
Burke was appointed secretary of commerce by Doyle and accepted the position. She resigned in 2007 citing her desire to “spend more time” on “other interests.”
Burke is currently slightly outpacing Republican Gov. Scott Walker in the polls, according to a Real Clear Politics average of recent polls.
It is unclear whether she will be pleased to win the election, which will involve her assuming the full-time governor position.
She didn't even last very long working for a Democrat Governor.
The author’s name should be spelled Scher! Sorry about that.
Mary Burke’s resume falls apart upon scrutiny.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Unqualified an Unsuitable for the job.
Big deal, rich kid didn’t work full time. At least she knew how to relax. Try being with someone who works as much as possible as a way to escape, 80 hours a week plus, New Year’s Eve, Thanksgiving morning and is miserable on holidays to boot.
The BIG DEAL is that she wants to be our Governor and she can’t even last in a day to day job. TWiCE!
WORK is an alien concept for most Liberals
What is wrong with you? You sure this is the right website for you?
Try being with someone who works as much as possible as a way to escape, 80 hours a week plus, New Year’s Eve, Thanksgiving morning and is miserable on holidays to boot.
Yes, this extreme is also problematic. I don't want either as Wisconsin governor.
This woman’s a flake.
lol. Trust fund leftist
Totally a flake.
GENERALIZATION>>>>>>
Women travel alone to far away places to have affairs and to boink away on foreign landscapes far away from disapproving friends and family
What happens in Argentina stays in Argentina (maybe)
Our current two term president has never held a full time job.
Sounds like she’d fit right in.
For a political party that likes to portray itself as a champion for the poor and the downtrodden, the Democratic Party continues to show their hypocrisy with the fact they have a bunch of rich, spoiled, privileged elected officials who know nothing of the working class people most Americans happen to be. These white liberals make me sick. They get into our faces all day long about how the corporations and the wealthy are trying to stick it to the little guy and then at the end of the day these folks retire to their palatial houses in their upper crust neighborhoods. Hypocrites!
Yes, I agree
“Burke is currently slightly outpacing Republican Gov. Scott Walker in the polls, according to a Real Clear Politics average of recent polls.”
Huh? You gotta be kidding!
Why, she’s as ‘cool’ as John Ketchup Kerry!
No wonder the left loves her! *SPIT*
It behooves us as Wisconsinites, to ensure she doesn't have to stress about a full-time job.
Walker!!!
Sounds like the man in the White House.
NOT KIDDING! But, you’v got to remember that Wisconsin is one of the few states where Obumbum feels comfortable campaigning. Except that Little Miss Mary refused to appear with him at his big Labor Day speech in Milwaukee. She met with him in private.
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